Description: This attribute represents the number of seconds that the sender proposes for the value of the hold timer.

Upon receipt of an OPEN message, the EQAM MUST calculate the value of the Hold Timer by using the smaller of its configured Hold Time and the Hold Time received in the OPEN message.

The Hold Time MUST be either zero or at least three seconds. An implementation MAY reject connections on the basis of the Hold Time. The calculated value indicates the maximum number of seconds that may elapse between the receipt of successive KEEPALIVE and/or UPDATE messages by the sender.